The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-04-23
NEWS ITEMS.

NSiAi PoAiSu ~ HIS vic, NdlleTllle
their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Emma
Becker, and a tifteen-months' old
child of the latter. After attending
to some business in town they start
ed for home aboutnoon. When they
reached this crossing the New York
and Chicago limited express, one OF
the fastest trains on the road, was
approaching. Becker whipped up
his horse and tried to cross the tracks
but he miscalculated the speed OF
the train. The locomotive struck
the wagon with great force. He and
his wife were both instantly killed,
having their skulls fractured. En-
ma Becker and the child were car
ried some distance ON the cow-catch-
er OF the locomotive, when the form
er fell of, breaking her collar-bone
and cutting her head. The engine
ran over one hundred yards and
when it was stopped the little child
was found clinging to the cow-catch-
er uninjured. When the train struck
the wagon the horse broke loose and
ran away.
Tuesday night the house occupied
by Luke Welter, at Brady Patch, two
miles east of Shamokin, Pa, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire and his little
S-year-old daughter, Clara, was burn
ed to cinder. The screams of the
girl and a younger brother awakened
the parents, who ran up stairs and
found the children enveloped in
flames. Mr.. Welter succeeded in
rescuing the boy, and while cropping
for the girl found the floor giving
away. The grief-stricken father,
badly burned and nearly suffocated
was rescued with much difficulty
and the little daughter went down
with the floor in a mass of flames.
Not until the fire had burned itself
out were the blackened bones of the
girl gathered.
A torpedo exploded under the tor
pedo launch Hull Tuesday afternoon
in the harbor at Annapolis, and
sunk her in one minute and a half.
Ensign Muir was in charge and sew
eral naval cadets were on board, but
they were all taken off in safety by
an oysterman.
Mrs. George Cole, of Forest City
Pa, on the Jefferson branch of the
Erie Railroad, died Tuesday from
injuries inflicted by an unknown as
sailant. Her husband is suspected.
At Brady, Michigan, Clark Harri-
son. farmer, demonstrated with
James Mcclure for abusing his (Mc-
Guire's) wife. Hot words followed
and the men exchanged shots.
Thinking he had killed Mcclure,
Harrison returned home, took NOR
phine and expired.
AT Sissonville, Is miles from
Charlestown, West Va, Benjamin
Slsson, a young married man, chop
ped his wife to death with Ratchet
on Wednesday. Sission went home
under the influence of liquor and.
upon the young wife approaching
him for drinking, he seized Ratchet
and dealt her blow in the breast.
The woman fell and Sisson dealt
her several additional blows on the
head, body and arms, inAicting
frighttul wounds from the effects of
which the woman soon died. Sis
son was promptly arrested.
James Rivers, a well-known actor.
stage manager and dramatist. of
Philadelphia, who has an extensive
among the theatrical profession
throughout the county, shot his wife
in the right hip Tuesday afternoon
and then put two bullets into his
own body, inhicting injuries which
are supposed to be fatal. Rivers.
whose stage name is James Reynolds
is about - years o. age.
Several hundred striking team
'ters at Montreal assembled at the
sheds Tuesday, assaulted the new
lriyers and Embarrassed their
horses. The police subdued the
rioters after severe fight, in which
stones and clubs were used. A
number were badly injured on both
sides.
Drunkenness is frightfullv preva-
ent among workingmen in the
| niontown, Pa, coke region. Fight
ng is going on continually and
murders are frequent.
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